Holiday Activities for Upper Elementary

Easy, Engaging Holiday Activities 

As we enter December and the mental countdown to winter break, we must still attempt to engage our seriously distracted students with meaningful lessons and activities.  We find that it helps if we embrace this time of year with some holiday themed lessons.  To help out we gathered some of our favorite TpT resources to assist in taming our students' behavior.

First up is our newest product - Winter Holiday Grab & Go! It is full of engaging, yet academic activities to fill your last few weeks before a much needed break! The 8 activities included are:

• Nonfiction article with questions
• Focused Poetry with questions
• Holiday Cause and Effect Chain
• Mentor sentence quiz
• Identifying homophones activity 
• Irregular past tense verb activity 
• Kindness Calendar - Make the Grinch Cringe
• Blank holiday writing pages

My Sweet Story:  Holiday-Flavored Adjective

by Kelley Dolling - Teacher Idea Factory

To play this game,

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Being a Book Reviewer!

We were so excited to be chosen as new book reviewers for Kid Lit Exchange! If you are not familiar with their work, click on the picture
to visit their brand new website. It's like reading teacher heaven!

The first book we reviewed was the picture book Milky Way by Mamta Nainy on Goodreads.

Tashi is a little boy who loves to gaze out his window and the world around him and beyond. However, he mostly enjoyed staring

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BTS Tips Part 2: Selecting Mentor Texts to Build Character

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BTS 2017 Target Gift Card Giveaway!

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We're so glad you decided to visit our blog to enter the giveaway. Just follow the steps in the Rafflecopter,

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Positive Pledge

This year one of our many "lofty" goals is to be more positive with our students. Stop and water the flowers instead of always pulling the weeds - if you know what I mean. We have tried many things in the past years like Class Dojo, classroom ticket reward system, secret student, etc. each with some success. New year and fresh start we are looking into incorporating brag tags, but with a more upper elementary feel.

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A Novel Approach

Once again we were on the lookout for a new class read aloud to study character development for our 4th grade students. Should we use a tried and true novel from the past or try something new? Is that really even a question? Something new without a doubt!  

So, we began by looking at the 2017-2018 Texas Bluebonnet Book Nominees. We were looking for a novel that

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Phoetry

This week we started generating ideas for our 4th grade poets. One of our favorite poems that we have done for the last couple of years is PHOETRY.

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